Easter Holiday Day 2 - April 4

Apart from the tomb sweeping with the family, we spent time shopping in the supermarket and doing household work. I continued to make purée for my lovely Megan. It's so easy with babycook. But once you started making the purée, it's better to make more for future use. 

We also pulled out the summer clothes to welcome the hot summer!! It's so hot today. 

Today, megan looked so excited and eager to take the baby rice. 

Tellkiddo

Yeah, the toy storage bags have arrived. Loving all designs from the Nordic. 

Got the signature bear-face bag. 

The toys are nicely tucked inside the paper bags. 

We have a parcel to send off too. 

Woof woof mask

Yeah! I mentioned in my blog that I wanted to try this kind of face mask. Now, my colleague Gloria ordered a few and gave me one. I am so happy because it's fun putting it on. 

Woof woof 

Hey Kailan, please pretend that you are scared! 

Easter Holiday Day 1 - April 3

Finally we have time to go out for movie in the Easter Holiday. Simple thing like this is already the highlight of my day. We went to see Fast and Furious 7, as we had been watching this in the cinema for the previous editions. Quite sad to know the handsome guy in the movie had died, so it's like a good farewell to him. 

Other than movie, it's all about baby sitting. But frankly speaking, it's quite fun to play with Megan now. 

Good morning! 

How come your cheeks have grown so big! 

Kailan greeted megan in the morning. Sniff sniff. 

Baby is so camera-sensitive

Woke up at 6:45am as usual. Made some pear purée for Megan. Loving my baby cook by beaba. Making baby food can be so easy now

Going down for a walk is a luxury now

All dads are specialized in this trick

Looking curious. Interested to see and touch everything

Family selfie

Family selfie 

Flying baby again <3

Milestone // first bite

Megan will be 6m next week. I am starting to give her baby rice this weekend so she can gradually taking other kinds of solid food when she reaches 6m. 

It's definitely a hard time to feed her at this age. Baby rice just all over her face! Glad that daddy is here to witness this moment and he took a few snaps for record too. 

Kailan is focussing on the baby rice

Interested to try new thing

Just cannot imagine food can travel that far and it's so close to the eyes now!! 

Lunch buffet (March 28)

Ah Lun has been so busy after CNY, and he was sick too. To cheer him up, I decided to have a lunch buffet on Saturday. Tine Tine was invited too though she had a small appetite. We had not many choices as we booked very late. In the end only Yamm accepted our booking. 

We thought Megan will be sleeping at the restaurant as 12-2pm is her usual nap time. Unfortunately, she did not sleep because of her excitement. After some crying, megan slept for just 30mins. 

Following the nap, she has to be fed. Very luckily, she still eat well despite sleeping badly. 

Not a relaxing day but still a family day I treasure. By the way, we all ate too little making me feel that it's not value for money. 

Starting from today, she learns how to tilt her head. She's so attracted by the pattern of our sofa. 

Family shot! Megan looks so cheeky...like me

Trying to put her to sleep, but everyone failed

Hyper state after she's back. She's keeping to roll over again and again

Toes-sucking

Tilting her head again 

Sexy megan rolling over

First doctor visit

The virus has finally passed down to megan! Ah Lun is the person to be blamed. I caught his virus last Sunday and now baby caught it in 3-4days. 

We were so worried but luckily Tine Tine has been so helpful and she helped to monitor the situation. We decided to visit the doctor this morning together. 

It's funny that we get three tickets from the reception for Tse family. We all went into the room and doc looked after us one by one. Very interesting experience. 

That's Megan's first time visiting the doctor, she's quite excited. 

Hope megan gets well soon! 

Megan looked excited as she's never been to this part of the shopping mall

Megan loves the book to cover her head these days.

Milestone // babbling

Baby Megan enjoys making sound as always but sometimes she looks like talking to you. When you respond to her, she says something again. We kept on talking to each other on Sunday morning.  One funny part is she sounds like singing.  

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Sunday Tea Time (March 22)

It's been always hectic on Sunday without Tine Tine and Ah Lun. After feeding and playing with Megan since 7am, I did not have much energy especially I might have caught the virus passed along by Ah Lun. I managed to take a short nap while baby was taking the 2-hour lunch nap. 

After the long lunch nap, it's feeding again and we had to rush going out to meet grandpa and grandma! 

Baby was very excited and we were sitting in the centre of the mall, there was too much stimulation which made baby getting tired very easily. Even though she's had enough rest before going out, she was yawning at around 4ish pm which is one hour earlier than her normal nap time. 

I feel so bad that we came late and left early, hopefully this will change when baby is getting older and she desires less sleep in the daytime. 

Waiting for daddy by the water promenade

Grandma is always over excited and baby is a bit scared. 

One of the rare family selfie moments

Megan always have many facial expressions, I think this is genetic 

We did not expect my sister to keep on taking pictures of us. Omg!

No more pacifier!

Yay! We succeeded in teaching megan to sleep without the pacifier less than 3 days. Using the controlled crying method, we have gradually made megan sleep on her own without sucking. 

If we could turn our clock back, I still don't know if I would use pacifier to soothe my baby. When megan just came home from hospital, she's so insecure that she cried for two hours before settling to sleep. Recommended by pui yuet, we used the pacifier and megan could get to sleep easily. But things get worse especially since she could move on her own at around 3-4 months. 

After her tummy pain at wee hours is getting better, we decided to train her not to rely on her pacifier anymore. Quite a big decision to make!! 

We were prepared that she can cry up to two hours on the first night, as I heard from my boss and colleague. But Megan's dependence on dummy was not too heavy so she just cried for 20 mins on the first night. 

On day 2, Tine Tine continued to follow my instructions and she did not need pacifier anymore and she just needed approximately 5-15 mins to settle into her nap. On day 2 evening, when I put her to sleep after the hot bath, she just slept in 8 mins. 

From 20 mins to 8 mins, it's really not bad. According to Gina Ford, the habit can be broken in 3 days! It's just worked according to the plan. I cannot thank her more. 

It's the 5th day Megan's quit sucking her pacifier. She's learning how to go back to sleep at 4am and 5:45am, but I don't need to put back the pacifier into her mouth anymore, I just monitor from the ip camera from my bedroom. 

Just hope that her deep sleep can last longer after taking solids. Fingers crossed. 

If we need to roll out the plan, we need to make the room completely dark. As per Gina ford, baby can wake up and don't continue to sleep if they see some light. Our nursery room is so dark now that Ah Lun once tried to sit in the chair I was sitting because he could not see me there. LOL!